A Quiz For The Pendants

[SJN-Fox]

For the pedants amongst us who pick up on every little mistake, let's see how good your grammar and punctuation is. No Cheating, I got 12/14 and was very disappointed!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/teacher-n...uiz/2013/feb/04/grammar-punctuation-quiz-test

 

[homer]

One wrong

Feckin' 'active voice', my arse - never bleedin' heard of it

Grammar wankers.......

 

[FryattFox]

10/14.

Sounds about write. Their were to many words that I didn't no, like 'antonym' and 'gerund'.

 

[FryattFox]

Here's another one that's (marginally) tougher than you expect:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv37.shtml

 

[Jeff]

12 :icon_sad:

 

[bocadillo]

13 :icon_cry:

 

[Dour]

14. Although I half-guessed at the gerund.

 

[Macky]

Only 12, thick ****

*Edit* I was talking about myself there, I only just saw Jeff's score above :icon_lol:

 

[Lboro fox]

I got 11, which considering I wasn't ever taught anything like the answers to those questions at school i'm quite pleased with!

I don't understand why the teachers are getting a bashing over it, when many weren't taught it themselves whilst at school. The curriculum is the problem not the teachers as per usual!

 

[Blue Maniac]

Spiffing.

 

[homer]

Spiffing.

Good try - but not actually a gerund, I'm afraid, as that only applies to the derivation of verbs

At least you spellded it correctly

 

[Hector]

I only got the last one wrong (I've always thought a gerund was a small pet akin to a hamster)

 

[Matt_B]

10/14.

Sounds about write. Their were to many words that I didn't no, like 'antonym' and 'gerund'.

Words like too?

 

[homer]

Words like too?

Whoosh is another word....

 

[Macky]

Words like too?

Owe deer

 

[FryattFox]

:icon_bigg

 

[SwedeFox]

13.

I don't think I would have done any better in my native language (Swedish). It's when you learn a foreign language that these things actually mean something.

 

[OldGit]

:icon_cool 14

 

[FryattFox]

:icon_cool 14

You're such a gerund.

 

[Blue Maniac]

:icon_bigg

:icon_lol: